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Finally the Dartmouth defense which had held opponents to an average of 60 yards a game before Saturday began to stiffen. But after two fruitless exchanges of the football, a 60-yard van Oudenallen punt put Dartmouth on its own 20. A frustrated Tom Spangenberg, Dartmouth's excellent halfback who has been injured a good part of the season, crashed into the Harvard line once too often...
...fourth quarter, with a one-point lead, Harvard seemed to be heading for the winning touchdown. Halfback Leo Swift took a pass from McClusky and weaved his way to the Dartmouth seven-yard line where he attempted a lateral. The lateral turned into a fumble, and Dartmouth took the ball 93 yards for eight points and victory...
...know. But the man who won that game for S.M.U. was John Roderick, a track man turned halfback...
...league. His point output: 60, tops in the league. The Giants had done all they could to stop him: his left arm was bandaged and swollen; there were purple bruises over and under both eyes and on the bridge of his nose. Brown only grinned. Said Giant Halfback Frank Gifford: "That Brown. He says he isn't Superman. What he means is that Superman isn't Jimmy Brown...
...said after the game that Harvard could have won if it had passed more often. Columbia was set for the Crimson ground game; Grant off-tackle, Grana up the middle, power sweep to the right, etc. When the varsity did open up--as when Tom Bilodeau threw his halfback pass to Frank Ulcickas--the Lions couldn't stop...